DEVELOPMENT OF USER-FRIENDLY DATABASE SOFTWARE FOR INDIAN UPLAND FISHES
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Authors
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ASHOK K. NAYAK
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PREM KUMAR
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P. C. MAHANTA
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R. S. HALDAR
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A. K. SAXENA
Abstract
A database software for easy and effective exploration of highland fishes of India has been developed for the first time. The upland regions of the Himalaya and peninsular India are endowed with plentiful and varied fish wealth. More than 250 fishes belonging to Schizothoracinae, Cyprininae, Cobitidae, Sisoridae etc. are quite important from the commercial and biodiversity point of view as well. Though the magnitude of the hill fishery resource is small as compared to tropical, but it forms a subsistence fishery for the weaker sections of people in the hills. Though the pertinent information on the subject was available but remained scattered in different work. This has been scanned and compiled in a form of database software for future use to researchers, planners and other agencies presently engaged in coldwater fishery sector for further resource management. Based on the available information on various physical and biological characteristics of highland fishes including their photographs, several informative computerized modules/ formats have also been designed in the database and properly discussed in the present communication.
Key words : Database management, upland fishes, meristic and morphometric characters, information system.
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